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Wide Finder 2: The Widening

<movie -trailer-guy> Many months ago he attempted Tim Bray’s first Wide Finder in C++, mainly as a coding exercise. Back then the goal was readability and conciseness. This time … it’s performanceal. </movie>

Wide Finder in C++

Have you been following Tim Bray’s Wide Finder project? It’s an exercise to express a fairly simple task in a manner that will scale across multiple CPU cores. Some of Tim’s initial progress with Erlang, and other contributors in different languages, is quite fascinating.

Like Tim I was also amused at Pete Kirkham’s C++ implementation [...]